January 1, 0001
How often do you find yourself sitting in a meeting, or since the arrival of the coronavirus a virtual meeting, getting more and more frustated as the clock ticks and discussions spiral out of control?
Iam sure the list can go on, personally when I stray into this territory I think of Elon Musks view on meetings.
.Hopefully some of these T resonate with others or I am in danger of this blog post being a rant, possibly acentuated by the current homeworking environment and number of virtual meetings. place.
Elon Musk's view on meetings
- No large meetings
- If you're not adding value to a meeting, leave.
- No frequent meetings.
Whilst very radical and possibly not acehivable in most businesses
The importance of structure
Agenda Objects and ActionsThe importance of decisions
We are offering to build a brand new website for anyone
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Boradcasts not meetings
Is it terminology
Professional we all lke fun,
Bad lanaguage
What will I need to provide if I win?
This is buying pre-built software from a supplier then configuring and customising it to support your business needs. This is a key point - if you choose an off the shelf platform, you need to keep customisation to a minimum. The more you customise the more pain that generally causes further down the road in terms of updates, changing to another product, onboarding new team members etc.
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The customers main goal was to get all of their customers data in one place so team members could collaborate on different sales pipelines. They already had a product in mind so I set about getting the team at Infraweb to run some workshops.What about the power?
I started writing this blog fresh off the back of consulting with a small finance company who were looking at using a CRM to support their growing customer base. During that engagement I often referred to the "power of the CRM" and how they should look to utilise the out of the box features where possible - lets not reinvent the wheel. This often lead to dicsussions on changing business process but only where that benefited the company, and was generally best practice in the industry.
Would you like to learn more about how a CRM could work for your business? Do you need help gathering requirements or with product selection stage? Get in touch with the team and we will be happy to chat through ideas with you.